This is the daytime view from Ypres’ landmark Cloth Hall’s 410-foot-tall clock tower, taken during a charity footrace. (Chris Reynolds / Los Angeles Times) 6 / 12.

They came in their uniforms or their Sunday best, bearing wreaths of cloth poppies and handwritten notes for fallen family members and countrymen, to be laid upon marble steps, to be read like ...

Ypres' medieval Cloth Hall was reduced to rubble by the end of the battle in November 1917. More on this story. Tracking down the WW1 grave markers. Published. 25 July 2017 ...

Ypres itself was in flames thanks to heavy German shelling, which among other things destroyed the city’s famous Cloth Hall, the gift of wealthy medieval weavers and a leading example of secular ...

The Cloth Hall – like everything else in Ypres – is a complete rebuild. German artillery had reduced it to a pile of masonry by 1917. After the Armistice, German reparation money rebuilt the ...

The rebuilt Cloth Hall in Ypres. Credit: Tony Wright. But how? Almost no one in Flanders had any money after the cataclysm of the war. The biggest tax ever levied came out of that war, it happens.

Today it is a small, pretty city in the far north-west of Belgium, noted for its imposing cloth hall built in the Middle Ages. But one hundred years ago the nondescript Flemish town of Ypres was ...